RT Book, Section
SR 00
A1 Thompson, M.
A1 Wildavsky, A.
T1 Proposal to Create a Cultural Theory of Risk
YR 1982
FD 1982
SP 145
OP 161
AB Risk, though it has some roots in nature, is inevitably subject to social processes. An individual is led to impose cut-off points, not because his eyesight is not good enough but because of the social and cultural institutions that are stabilized and made credible for him by virtue of his social context and its appropriate cosmology. A different individual in a different social context is led to impose on his external world all kinds of risks that have no physical counterpart.
A2 Kunreuther, H.C.
A2 Ley, E.V.
T2 Risk Analysis Controversy: An Institutional Perspective
PB Springer Verlag
PP Berlin/Heidelberg
T3 Proceedings of a Summer Study on Decision Processes and Institutional Aspects of Risk
SN 3540120122
AV Published
LK https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13700/